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A commodity boom has helped pull millions out of poverty across South America over the past decade. It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fueling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile. The land and the forests are poorly regulated and protected leading to illegal plundering of resources which end up deteriorating and damaging the environment. This article is also a good example of negative externality of consumption and how demand can indirectly increase the damage inflicted on the environment. Since the amazon rainforest is only protected in some places and not in others (and the protected places are still open to the public), it is a common resource that is constantly being violated and reduced.

This article considers the impact on the ocean that we are causing by having is as a public good with public access.

This article is about how basing the oil business around the idea of the planet is running out of oil concept was a huge mistake as oil prices crash like a plane on fire.

The article talks about one of the world's most tragic tragedy, which is "tragedy of the commons". This theory explores when a resource is available jointly, people often deplete these resources, rather than save them. To further support the theory, the article focuses mainly on "over-fishing" and how the ocean is a "common area", therefore anybody can choose to fish out there, and this leads to the problem of over-fishing and destroying the habitats of the high seas.

This article discuss that due to the melting of arctic ice and over exploitation of fish area known as dead zones are quickly spreading thereby deteriorating the 'common' high seas known to be economically beneficial to all.

This article talks about how our over dependence on the seas are affecting them and in turn affecting us. Since the seas are responsible for so much in human life, the deterioration of the seas could greatly affect different facets of human life such as climate among other things.

Our modern global economy struggles with the challenge of using limited natural resources without exhausting them. It seems difficult to keep the common privatised and put regulations so that they arent overused by the community. In addition to that it was mentioned that privatisation can lead to the destruction of local economies in some cases